Samples of Instructional Wikis

Astronomy Alphabet
Holes
Yewlands Science School
Novel Study
LMS Book Club
Deep River Elementary School
Google Earth
About Our School Educational Wikis

Benefits of Wikis

Collaboration
Access
Everything at one spot
Annonymity - no fears of embarassment
Everyone is the "webmaster" - everyone can participate
Cool thing in a center
Less email


Practice Using Wiki


Wiki Registration

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Group Discussion

Click on the Discussion Tab above and respond to at least one of the postings. After you have done that reply to someone else's post.

Wiki Resources

Wiki Tutorial

Wikispaces Video Tutorials


Wiki Tips

Remind students to not use last names.
Set up guidelines for editing each other's work.
Under Manage Space, use the Members and Permission feature to establish who can view and edit your wiki. Public means anyone can see and edit your wiki. You can also lock down your wiki so that anyone can view it but only members can edit. See the Wikispaces Help for Teachers to see how to create member accounts for your students. The information is copied below.


5. Is there an easy way to create accounts for all of my students!


Sure - if you don't want your students to have to create accounts themselves, just email help@wikispaces.com with a list of usernames, email addresses (if you have them - if you don't just leave them out), and passwords in the following format and we'll create the accounts for you.

 user1,email1@address.com,password1
 user2,email2@address.com,password2
 user3,email3@address.com,password3

A few important notes that will help us create these accounts for you quickly:

Usernames
We have a large number of accounts on Wikispaces, so many combinations of first names, last names, and initials are already taken. It's much more likely we can make all the accounts you ask if you add a school identifier to your students' usernames. For example, if your school is called John Smith High, instead of asking us for the usernames, adam, james, and dom, we recommend jsh-adam, jsh-james, and jsh-dom.

Length of Usernames and Passwords
Please make sure that usernames are at least 3 characters long (we allow letters, numbers, underscores _, or dashes -) and that passwords are at least 6 characters long.

Which Space?
Finally, make sure to let us know which spaces we should add them to as members.